Inmate Death: What the Media Chose to Ignore

Apparently, when it doesn’t fit the media’s narrative, like the coverage of Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli prison this week.

Jaradat, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was arrested for throwing stones that wounded an Israeli civilian. Five days later, he died of a possible cardiac arrest.

The death became an international story when Palestinian officials claimed the autopsy report indicated he died as a result of torture. Israeli officials countered that the autopsy was inconclusive and what the Palestinians were calling signs of “torture” – bruises on his chest and broker ribs – may have been efforts to revive Jaradat after his heart failure.

Regardless of how he died, the media has an obligation to tell the truth about who he was, not to cherry-pick elements of his biography to give him a particular image. The Los Angeles Times, to its credit, was one of the few media outlets to include information about Jaradat’s terrorist affiliation, noting:

Musa Jaradat said his cousin had never been arrested before, but was a member of the Fatah Youth Movement and, according to Al Aqsa members who attended his funeral, part of the West Bank military brigade.

Beyond those notable exceptions, the media bent over backwards to whitewash Jaradat and even, in some cases, the fact that he committed a violent crime. Here is how the New York Times described Jaradat and what he did:

After weeks of intensifying protests in solidarity with the hunger strikers, attention turned Sunday to Mr. Jaradat, who relatives said worked at a gas station, was the father of a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, and came from a family in which all the men had spent time in Israeli jails. He was arrested last Monday over throwing stones at Israeli cars near a West Bank settlement during November’s conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

The Times takes pains to present Jaradat as a family man with two small children and a regular job, but ignores the fact that he was a member of a group designated as a terrorist organization by the US and the EU.

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I began the protests against the stone throwing aca 5 years ago in the comments to many articles but nobody(including the Jewish media) published them.The PajamaMedia once published one.
American international broadcasting for Europe-RFERL recently banned this comment about their publication of the best world photo, but after my sneers published it! What a shame for the Radio Liberation! Liberation from the truth.

That tribal nonsense-hatred, which is now in slums in some poor African regions accummulating, resulting in youth gangs who murder the other clan’s people because they sent a murder and rape gang, and “POLITICIANS” there PAY 3 dollars for RAPE and 5 FOR MURDER, and sometimes SHOW PICTURES of “to be eliminated” people to their ALMOST KIDDISH, poor and TOTALLY STUPID and YEA EVIL and loyal subjects.

This tribal murder which goes on into both directions, and is therefore a mute conflict, a futile, vain one, is NOT comparable to the BIG massmurder by the HUTUS done to the TUTSIS in RUANDA.

About Meshal: The Dude tried to say he’s sorry for the bomb attack in Bulgaria.

Or it was hizbolla. The NY Times wrote it was da ugly hizbolla. I call them ugly. Those hizbolla. How “proud”ly some of their (ultra-leftist and mad) activist once pronounced that word, with ‘n quite audible effort to emulate arabic….

I don’t know what this Meshal has done and what he condones. Why he doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, this ain’t so good of him. Why the world press has not yet ONCE bigtime shouted against HAMAS — that IS a huge concern to also me, personally. The world has back then already not helped on time. I see Israel eroded by permanent attacks. This must stop now. Period.

And the worldview of hamas hizbolla alkaida jihad taliban and in africa janjaweed and yahia jammeh (gambia) and boko haram, are totally abusive world views which exempt violence upon innocents.

Also clear danger countries ruled by total evil are KAZAKHSTAN, parts of RUSSIA, ALL of CHINA (xept Hongkong), and CONGO — AND now ALSO TUNESIA, not “only” the big prob Syria and the “lesser”, still big prob Egypt. TUNESIA’s ruling “religious” party is NAZI and MUST GO now. NOW !

I would establish peace by establishing permanent talks while upholding the demand for simple JUSTICE inside Westbank and Gaza. I wanna be da friend of the Palestinians. There WILL come a time like that. Please SOON !!!

The belief which was unrightfully taken from us in the massmurder camps of auschwitz treblinka bergen belsen dachau sobibor and 800 other camps among the piles of massgased six million Jews, that belief shall not anymore be taken from us.

But G”d “moves in mysterious ways”? Not even so. What is clear, is, that the big miracles are there, daily birth, but, that since after the bible, miracles and “G”d” have to some big part LEFT this world to itself. Magic is there in music, between people, but not that “magic”, which those abusive sudo-”atrologists” like VON DAENIKEN this nazi, believe in. They “believe” in “conspiracy theories”, which are ANTISEMITIC. NAZI. that alone is the proof.

I come with my European arrogance and ’tis granted — by ISRAELIS. THE MOST TOLERANT STATE EVER. MY LOVE ISRAEL.

Because I am Jewish — and no. Not BECAUSE I am Jewish, I am good, but BECAUSE my Soul is good, the “Boss”, Hashem, said, hey, get that dude there and stuff. let him be a JEW — but please after all dat SCHITT with mister (S)HITLER. yo.

That “Boss”, the Big One, up there, has simply more data to rely on than Obama. Obummie, my Dude, is just as Goode. Truly. But yea, also there, justice. Law in USA says, only while in preparation for real terror action, can perpetrators be combatted (by drones and other means).

and I DO have to still add (sorry wordlimit here), that really, I SEE, HOW MANY ROCKETS landed from the HIZBOLLA into ISRAEL, and HOW Israel’s military strikes, which happen VERY seldom, not EVEN ONCE a year in this size of very big dimensions.

While EVRY day, JEWS ANYwhere, I don’t speak “only” of Israel, ARE KILLED, by NAZIS. “Jews” are likewise liberal or “weak” Turkish People who live in GERMANY and are beaten ON THE METROSTATIONS by NEONAZIS, reported about by the “SPIEGEL”. Augstein IS no antisemite, GET DAT into YO HEADS yo BEHIND-DA-WOODS-ISRAELIS. Yea modern. But in the desert. Oy. Is a far fetch from a ROTHSCHILD, n’est-ce pas? :/// :)))

And, I say, don’t think I EVER would in THIS fashion AS-IS, CONDONE the strike against Beirut in 1982. I CANNOT make SUCH a big WEDGE between ME NOW and ME back ONLY some maybe ten years or even less. BUT I AM NOT Uri Avneri. He has his faults, he denies that antisemitism would exist. There he’s mad, but he DOES NOT deserve THAT BOMB ATTACK on his redaction, which he DID receive — BY MURDERERS, by FANATICS. Maybe from the MUSLIM side? nope. TOTALLY NOT. THAT were ULTRA-ORTHODOX, ULTRA-ULTRA-ORTHODOX Jews. But they are SO few in Israel — but with abusive “training”, society CAN rot, get spoilt.

So, there is no doubt that the world needs to be safe and ENTIRELY FREE of ALL and ANY NEONAZIS or such massmurderers as we had them in RUANDA, and from the chinese massmurder government. and from an insane north korean leadership, as of late. and from a nuclearly ambitioned iran who might let the ayatollas push the button to an atombomb to israel with nazi greetings from “iran” (irangov

So, those two cases, those three, nazi germany, ruanda, and israel-palestine conflict, ARE TOTALLY, OVERWHELMINGLY, actually “one-sided”: Only ONE side committs the most HORRENDOUS (mass-) murder. AND injustice.

I expect the Israeli investigation to be impartial. No prob. Shalom my Beloved. Ahava.

So, I don’t want, that ALL Hutus now HATE ALL Tutsis — THAT WAS, WHAT HAPPENED, haha NOT FUNNY was LIKE NAZI GERMANY 35-45, just in AFRICA — I wanted to say, I don’t want TUTSIS to hate the HUTUS now — BUT I DO WANT, THAT THOSE HUTUS who COMMANDED AND, AND EXECUTED (!) THAT MASSMURDER-BY-MACHETES THERE in RUANDA, are BROUGHT TO JUSTICE in DUE PROCESS and FAIR WAYS, but that those who really are the MOST GRUESOMELY EVIL DEEDS-DONE-ones, ARE TREATED WITH ACTUALLY THE SAME DISDAIN THEY EXEMPTED UPON THE TUTSIS, YES.

But in a FAIR and TRUTHFUL way. Which results in: Not even MOST Hutus are abusive. Surely opressed and too obedient, sadly. Or have been. In the 90ies.

I have to further explain: Generalisations are wrong there, where you compare “wrong, different fields”: In the Israel-Palestine-conflict, it (sadly) is only that “one” side of hamas, hizbolla, jihad, alkaida and co, which is a concoction of gruesome murderers who go about their “business” of rape, extreme violence and murder, as if nothing happened, as the nazis did. THAT is the REAL picture which the world-wide media ARE opressing, actually, YEA. sadly. as they suppressed the massmurder by JIANG ZEMIN of china to between one and four MILLION FALUN GONG, massmurdered in one-THOUSAND chinese concentration camps — and that, between 1999 and 2007.-Ruanda: also TRULY mostly a 1-sided story.

The actual problem: The good Jews gotta take over. The good People evywhere. I AM a Jew, so I don’t see “Netanjahu” as ANY abusive like ALL THOSE sudo-”alternative” young people now, who ACTUALLY not unoften, the MORE “alternative” and poor and de-socialised (!) they are, CRAP on NETANJAHU in their HIDDEN and EVER SO OBVIOUS NAZI-ANTISEMITISM. PURE EVIL. under the mask OF ANY “RASTAFARI” — also there, among Black People, IT IS merely a MINORITY which IS VIOLENT — AND DOES HATE ISRAEL. BUT THAT BLACK NAZI MINORITY EXISTS.

The HUTUS MASSMURDERED the TUTSIS in RUANDA — AND NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND!

This prisoner here, who died sadly in an Israeli prison, an EXTREME exception, it is possible, that this one a) did also other acts of either extreme violence or even murder, or, that not, and that he merely threw stones, and, that b) he had a pre-existing heart condition OR NOT, and that c) he was beaten by some of the EXTREMELY FEW Israelis, OR THAT NOT, —

and also I demand the answer. Would it even be the “bad” case for Israel, that this prisoner died after having been beaten, that would uncover some abuse concerning Israel indeed. But “TELE”-”REVENGE” for that from aFAR IS NONE! I am fair in EVRY direction. Objective truth: Israel is by effort eroded by violence by hamas & co.

Also, I advise hereby to much more charisma among Jewish People evrywhere, and among pro-Jewish People.

Why have obvious villains like Chavez or Kim Yong Un or what’s his name, why have THEY ALL their PEOPLE BEHIND them — or do they only make a big show for TV? they DO. !!! All this CHAVEZ-TALK in the media. Like with the POPE. oy SE WORLD GOETH UNDER !!! But let’s turn the next page in our tabloid cheapo mag called life.

The “democratic” “liberal” nations must learn, that if we don’t put an end to the nazis, they will put an end to us.

this has not “swept” over to USA and stuff yet. They think they’d be “safe”, but not only the NET is eroding all borders.

Those who do violence to totally innocent people, must be combatted with LETHAL intention.

Full force against full force is the only solution, — but of course, let us not mis-compare that to OTHER situations like the one in some african country, in which tribes are upheaved to unneeded murder there. There, it’s not only one side who does all the hate-murder.

“…Jaradat, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was arrested for throwing stones that wounded an Israeli civilian. Five days later, he died of a possible cardiac arrest.

The death became an international story when Palestinian officials claimed the autopsy report indicated he died as a result of torture. Israeli officials countered that the autopsy was inconclusive and what the Palestinians were calling signs of “torture” – bruises on his chest and broker ribs – may have been efforts to revive Jaradat after his heart failure….”
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The arrest was rightful. I would investigate,whether his heart condition was already pre-existing or not. I was wounded by muslims extremely.no 1 helped

What for was this Palestinian jailed ? Which media do care about Jewish families murdered
and children slaughtered. What horrifies me are those “Jews” Mrs. Shulman who are giving
lessons of morality to Israel.

Palestinian dies in Palestinian jail.
Where are the riots on the West Bank?
I guess we can finally see now that Abbas was behind those riots.
Where is the investigation by the U.N about this prisoner killed.
Ooops, this don’t fit are propaganda against Israel.

@Tom, the situation with reporting and commenting on Israel is far beyond double standards today. It is virtual open warfare on the beleagured state of Israel. It would appear that whatever Israel does is going to be wrong, regardless of facts on the ground. It is a sad reflection indeed on the amoral and immoral standards practiced today by western governments and the news media.
Of course, one might class this statement as paranoia, maybe but, it does not mean that I am wrong..
Our problem is that we have a higher standard for ourselves than we expect of others. That is double standard, we can accept double standards from goyim, even Jew hating Jews, but not hateful malicious lies.

Remember the old rebuking chant: “Sticks and stones may brake my bones but names will never hurt me” ?

Well the saying is true today – except one might add that stones can actually kill. In ancient times they often used stones in war even if you were fighting with a sword – nothing stopped you from crouching down, picking up a rock, and crushing your opponent with it!

The british and americans have killed more innocents in iraq and afghanistan than the israeli have in gaza, judea and samaria, they have also stolen more land than they claim Israel has stolen. Double standards again.

@Jacob. or else..? Say it clearly, western news agencies are told to report by their Arab hosts, otherwise, they are deported, or tortured, go missing, beheaded, murdered and in the case of women, raped. Who do you think is behind all this? Saudi Arabia contributes $billions to its embassies around the world to be used in converting those idiots to Islam, and to demonise, delegitimise in every conceivable manner, the State of Israel. Their aim is being satisfied and is hugely successful.
Their extremeleftwing and extremeright wing allies are only too glad to assist. Wherever they go, as they strengthen their numbers, the situation worsens. Look at the Islamic green atlas of the world.

@Cliff, I have been calling for an Israeli satellite with 24/7 reporting and opinions from the israeli side. aka Al Jazeera style. I have communicated with the Israeli FM and Bibi. Reaction? Zilch.
For too many years Israeli reaction to Arab propaganda was “aah, we can’t be bothered, truth is on our side.” When you look at the naivity (or otherwise) of leftwing Jews towards Israels enemies, one can understand why Israel fails to send out the correct message.
All the time, the Arabs continue a tirade against Israel and Israel fails to respond with the only form of response they undersdtand and respect. Arabs do not respect Jews, as Jews don’t have enough self respect and it shows.

Years ago, an Israeli Information Minister met with reporters of international news agencies and, when he asked them why did they report so falsely on Israel, one of them told him that the truth
of the matter was that they were given what to report by the PA and it was either that to report or else….
I firmly believe this situation has not changed and, combined with the bias against Israel by the
mostly leftist and Judeophobic media, is what’s responsible for the damaging reporting on
everything concerning Israel…
It was reported as well that a Pali “coroner” was present at the autopsy of the deceased terrorist
and said there were signs of torture….
So what else is new ????

Israel released 6 of the 7 Syrian armed militia from hospital, while the 7th still receives treatment. Did this make the the news?

Israel flew by a military helicopter to a hospital an Arab injured during the riots where he was caught stoning the army. did this make the news?

The media relies on revenues from advertising (see CNN with its Arab service).

When in the international arena, is a terrorist a terrorist? When the said person acts against the interests of that country. Never when it is against Jews or Israelis. They are fair play for the media. The media and their Arab supporters only act out of interest for the Arabs, not Israel. Dead Arab = News. Dead Jews = No News

Who is Jaradat, compared with around 50 un armed American Soldiers, shot by a Muslim (he yelled “Alahu Akbar” while reloading) American Major of Arab origin, and did not kill more because a small, private, policewoman shot him and was shot in return. She was rewarded by being fired. This happened more than three years ago at FORT HOOD, and the victims nor their families have been compensated or duly taken care of. How come? Because Barack Hussein O., did not want his brother in Islam to be judged as a terrorist, so he defined the tragedy as a “working Place Accident”, reason why the media ignored this, and the Pentagon approved the definition. Am not allowed to write on… Justice?

This is not bias. This is a deliberate choice to spread lies. When the news media makes systematically the conscious effort to withhold information, this are lies.
IL should apply sanctions against the “newsman” or newspaper in question since this represents a violation of privilege. More and more, freedom to lie is construed as freedom of speech.
Just like IL never alluded to the 850,000 Jews expelled from the Muslim countries, she ignores the power she has to warn and sanction repeat offenders of the mass media. Is forcing the mass media to apologize for their lies the only corrective measure available? What about the massive campaign of lies from the Arab mass media!

RE: the story of Arafat Jaradat’ published week of 25/02/2013: READ ‘SON OF HAMAS’ BY Mosab Hassan Yousef, born 1978 in Ramallah, Samaria. He is the eldest son of Hamas founder & leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. From 1997 to 2007, Mosab worked as a spy for the Shin Bet of Israel. He wrote about his work in his book ‘Son of Hamas’. He writes that in the Israeli prisons, it was the arab prisoners torturing fellow arabs. Connecting the dots between what ‘Son of Hamas’ documents, & Jaradat’s fear about returning to prison for a few more days, he most likely feared more, & died, of torture he endured at the hands of fellow arab terrorists in jail with him. Each arab is a potential martyr!

screw the media as they are mostly full of crap and have thier own agenda for selling their rag articles. i still believe that obama is here illegally and is not a u.s. citizen, but you have so much bull crap from the press and not one organization who will say the truth. the man has spent over $950,000.00 to keep his past a secret. if you check the records he has over 20 different social security numbers.

Front page: PALESINIAN DIES IN ISRAELI JAIL BECAUSE OF TORTURE.
Interior pages: 180 SYRIANS DEAD AFTER AIR RAID.
Is there a balanced and fair information?…….for one, the front page informs about something that is not fully proved; and the other information is easier to prove because is happening everyday in Syria, but the balance inclines always against Israel……SHAME ON THE BIAS MEDIA!!

A man who is the father of two young children should have better things to do than go out and throw stones. Where was his sense of parental responsibility? He would have been arrested in the UK and no doubt in the USA as well. Israel was similarly justified in detaining him. Sadly, people die in custody here as well, sometimes in odd circumstances. However, it is brushed under the carpet and I am sure it never makes international news.

There is no story except that a man with questionable parental responsibility was arrested for violent behaviour and died whilst being held. This was used to provoke a riot. In any other country such criminal behaviour would have led to more arrests.

Arafat Jaradat was a terrorist but if he was tortured Israel has a problem. I for one cannot accept the fact that the cause of bruises can be the effort to revive him and that the investigation as to the true causes can be “inconclusive;” the international community which is much less supportive of Israel than me has a good reason to be suspicious in this case. It is in Israel’s best interest to be fully transperant in investigating the cause of his death (including international participation) and let the chips fall where the may. If he actually died of turture, those responsible should held to account. If he died of something else, the “conclusive” cause should be found and published-

” I for one cannot accept the fact that the cause of bruises can be the effort to revive him and that the investigation as to the true causes can be “inconclusive;”

I see. So clearly you know that CPR never causes bruises or broken ribs? How do you know this? Of, if you accept that CPR DOES cause these kinds of injuries (ask any doctor or emergency responder), how are you better informed than the doctors who did the autopsy and called it “inconclusive”. Do you have access to better medical training than them? Did you see the body and examine it personally? Or are you just making an assumption based on your prejudices?

I think it is in the interest of all to have a second opinion in this case. Yet it makes a lot of sense to assume that every effort was made to revive the man; after all no one wants to have a a prisoner die in the hands of the captors. Mind you, in the case of a prisoner dying in a jail in Iran Canadians would certainly assume that death is the result of torture ……. bias all over again ! I would like to know hy the prisoner got into cardiac arrest in the first place.

What do I think? That you are both ignorant and undereducated and therefore opinionated and sure in your foolish biases. Administrating CPR often and regularly results in broken ribs and hematomas. Furthermore, Israel has always, though frustratingly to no avail, been transparent in her investigations. More so than the USA, European countries and certainly the despotic Arab regimes who throughout history have murdered their own, and others, citizens and continue to do so as we sit in our homes today. Israel regularly invites the terrorists families to appoint a pathologist to participate in the autopsy, as was the case with the Arafat Jaradat autopsy.

good to know that there was a pathologist review ! That should help preventing further doubts. Fully agree with the explanation of bruises; never had any doubts about their causes. Yet one would still like to know why the guy’s heart stopped beating in the first place.

What do I think? That you are both ignorant and undereducated and therefore opinionated and sure in your foolish biases. Administrating CPR often and regularly results in broken ribs and hematomas. Furthermore, Israel has always, though frustratingly to no avail, been transparent in her investigations. More so than the USA, European countries and certainly the despotic Arab regimes who throughout history have murdered their own, and others, citizens and continue to do so as we sit in our homes today. Israel regularly invites the terrorists families to appoint a pathologist to participate in the autopsy, as was the case with the Arafat Jaradat autopsy.

I agree that there is biased reporting / selective truth. Yet fortunately we have access to the information. It is foolish to believe that TV stations and Newspapers are there to inform us about the truth. Their raison d’être is to make money! As consumers we can only hold our noses or turn off the station.

Yes, media are biased and follow patterns established in concert with the “philosophy” of a given Newspaper, TV station etc. This bad habit is very wide spread and that is why we have an obligation to talk about such practices. While I see that some publications are definitely exhibiting bias in reporting about Israel I do not believe that sloppy reporting is used to systematically fuel anti Israel feelings. Living in North America and relying on the local media I could get the impression that the rest of the world is hardly worth mentioning for anything other than conflicts and natural disasters. There is enormous bias everywhere , period.